Extensive Acanthosis Nigricans due to rectal carcinoma (1 of 7)

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Extensive Acanthosis Nigricans due to rectal carcinoma (1 of 7)
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Gastroenterology

Case description

A very extensive Acanthosis Nigricans, with
adenocarcinoma of the rectum.

A 73-year-old woman, that noticed a darkness of her face
during a period of one year and a half.
Rectal bleeding started 3 months previously.
At the time of physical examination, we found this
striking picture. Digital examination was performed, a hard
mass was found at the rectum.
A peptide growth factor from a tumor is related.
Remission of the skin lesions occurs with removal of the
tumor.

tags: carcinoma to acanthosis Nigricans

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